I.C. Morarescu is currently Full Professor at Université de Lorraine and researcher at the Research Centre of Automatic Control (CRAN UMR 7039 CNRS) in Nancy, France. He received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in Mathematics from University of Bucharest, Romania, in 1997 and 1999, respectively. In 2006 he received the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics and Technology of Information and Systems from University of Bucharest and University of Technology of Compiègne, respectively. His works concern stability and control of time-delay systems, tracking control for nonsmooth mechanical systems, consensus and synchronization problems.